HP Delivers Next Generation of Complete Data-Warehouse Solutions; Multiterabyte Scalability and Quick Implementation for Finance, Telecommunications and ERP.

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 1998--Building on its experience as a leader in business-critical data warehousing Hewlett-Packard Company today announced the first in a series of business-intelligence solutions designed to accelerate businesses' flow of information while helping to reduce costs and increase revenues.

HP is combining the HP OpenWarehouse program with HP Consulting and partner offerings to release an extensive ERP Business-Intelligence program, initially with SAP BW (Business Information Warehouse), enhanced customer-relationship-management (CRM) solutions for financial services, complete call-behavior-analysis (CBA) products and services for the telecommunications market, and an end-to-end certified data-warehouse program. Additionally, these solutions leverage the new HP 9000 V2500 Enterprise Server, also announced today, to provide maximum performance, scalability and availability required by customers' growing information needs.

"HP has worked with more than 700 customers to put data warehousing at the core of their strategy for increasing profits," said Janice Chaffin, general manager for HP's High Performance Systems Division. "We are now taking that expertise and packaging it into industry-specific business-intelligence solutions for quick implementation. Our HP 9000 Servers, HP-UX(1) operating environment and storage solutions will also ensure that these applications are highly available and scale for terabytes of data."

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--   Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): HP's new ERP
     Business-Intelligence program includes a complete set of
     data-warehouse methodologies, technologies, and services and
     support for SAP BW. Leveraging more than 5,000 SAP R/3
     installations running on HP servers, HP and partners will provide
     quick-start implementation, specialized consulting, high
     availability, backup and recovery, and worldwide service and
     support -- all designed for SAP BW. HP is also working with
     Platinum Technology and Ernst and Young Consulting to launch a
     comprehensive "high power, quick return" ERP business
     intelligence suite for multiple source data warehouses.

--   Financial Services: HP and SAS Institute, in collaboration with
     best-of-breed application providers such as Prime Response, will
     provide CRM solutions. This solution will allow customers to
     increase profitability, fine-tune marketing effectiveness and
     improve customer interaction. The solution will include pretested
     and preconfigured UNIX(R) and Windows NT(R) hardware systems,
     infrastructure and consulting services, data models and support.

--   Telecommunications: HP's CBA solution includes telco-specific
     extract technology, data models, methodology and architecture.
     This solution turns call detail records into business
     intelligence for campaign management, churn and fraud reduction,
     marketing, and sales. With HP's acceSS7 business intelligence,
     additional information is captured from SS7 switches to optimize
     network performance and predict future trends.

--   Multiterabyte Warehousing: HP and Oracle(R) announce a terabyte
     plus initiative for customers requiring multiterabyte,
     business-critical data warehouses. It includes joint sales,
     marketing, research and development for complete solutions.

--   End-to-end Business Intelligence: HP and Informix are working
     together to provide a certified data warehouse, a pretested and
     preconfigured business-intelligence solution providing customers
     with reliability, low risk and flexibility across Windows NT and
     HP-UX platforms.

HP intends to expand its business-intelligence solutions to include government, healthcare and manufacturing markets. Research and development efforts are currently under way to expand scalability, increase performance and pursue appropriate alliances to package these solutions.

Increased Performance, High Availability

Building on its leadership in high-end UNIX system servers, HP offers a high-performing, highly available and easily manageable UNIX system solution for data warehousing and business intelligence. HP's new data-warehouse server, the HP 9000 V2500 Enterprise Server, will double HP's query performance and offer scalability for terabytes of data. The V2500 also can be extended to 128 processors using HP's scalable computing architecture (SCA). Furthermore, with the HP-UX operating environment and HP's enterprise storage solutions, customers can be confident that the data warehouse can easily scale to meet growing and changing business requirements as more information is stored and more users are added.

To address the business-critical availability needs inherent in data warehousing, HP has added the V-Class series of servers to its Mission Critical Server Suites. These suites provide uptime commitments of 99.95 percent. HP's vision is to deliver end-to-end availability solutions at a 99.999 percent uptime -- just five minutes of downtime per year -- by the end of the year 2000.

U.S. Pricing and Availability

Specific pricing information is available by contacting a local HP sales representative or HP channel partner.

Information about HP's data-center solutions can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com/go/datacenter.

About HP

Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 124,600 employees and had revenue of $47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year.

Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com.

(1) HP-UX Release 10.20 and later and HP-UX Release 11.00 and later (in both 32- and 64-bit configurations) on all HP 9000 computers are Open Group UNIX 95 branded products.

Note to Editors: UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.

Oracle is a registered U.S. trademark of Oracle Corporation, Redwood City, California.

Windows NT is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp.